Holocaust is the term that explains murder history of the six million Jews in Europe during World War II which was planned by the national socialist party in Germany. Facts about the Holocaust are available in most graphic history books. In fact, rather a few museums with exhibits about this crime against humanity exist, too. Get fact detailed about Holocaust from also Virtual Library contains articles, original documents, a holocaust glossary, bibliography and online. The holocaust was running from 1933 to 1945. When Hitler came to power in Germany that time it began and ended when the Nazis were beaten by the Allied powers. When Second World War was started, that time number of Jews that lived in the 21 countries. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed. 1.5 million Children were murdered. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of handicapped children.

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Six millions Jew people were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

The term “Holocaust,” originally from the Greek word “holokauston” which means “sacrifice by fire,” refers to the Nazi’s persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. The Hebrew word “Shoah,” which means “devastation, ruin, or waste,” is also used for this genocide.

There were 39 camps in total

The most deaths occurred at Treblinka, Warsaw and Sobibor in Poland, Mauthausen-Gusen in Austria, Auschwitz in Poland and Belsen, Buchenwald and Dachau in Germany

Between December 1941 and the end of 1944, more than four million people, mainly Jews, were murdered in the six camps of Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzac, Majdanek and Auschwitz

More than 9,000 people were killed each day at the height of exterminations at Auschwitz

An estimated 1.1 million to 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz

The mass murder, which wiped out two-thirds of all European Jews, was called the ‘Final Solution’ by the Nazis

In addition to Jews, the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered.

The term “Nazi” is an acronym for “Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” (“National Socialist German Worker’s Party”).

The Nazis used the term “the Final Solution” to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.